ELECTRONIC FREIGHT PAYMENT QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

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Introduction

Welcome to Con-Way’s Electronic Freight Payment online tool! Use the tool to quickly and easily review your pull information and then approve it for payment. With Electronic Freight Payment you no longer have to send Con-Way a paper invoice, so you significantly reduce your receivables cycle.

To Get Started

TheList Invoices screen appears.

2 Click Tools 1 Access the Subservice Carriers site

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To sort pulls, click the Ascending ( ) or Descending ( ) sort icons in column headers.

Viewing Your Invoices

The List Invoices screen displays all your pulls for Con-Way—those that have been approved and those pending approval (after April 12, 2004), which include disputed pulls, canceled pulls waiting for approval, and adjusted pulls. If you don’t see the pull information you need here, you can also inquire about missing pulls from this screen. The default view displays all invoices that are pending approval. You can view other invoices in the approval process by using the radio buttons in the Filter Pulls section of the screen. Use the From-To text boxes to view approved invoices or all invoices for specific dates.

To view missing pulls, click here. • To view all invoices Pending Approval or all In Dispute, click the appropriate radio button. • To view all Approved invoices or All Invoices during a specific time period, click the

appropriate radio button, type a date range (in mm/dd/yy format), and then click GO. All invoices with a Delivered/Cancelled date in the specified range appear on the list.

Approval Section

Pull Details

See To dispute pull record details later in the reference guide for more information. To view a pull record’s details, click the Booking # of a pull.

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Following are what you might find in the Status column and what they mean: Waiting for Carrier Approval

An invoice is pending payment until you approve it. The amount you submit for approval must match Con-Way’s records. Otherwise, you can dispute it and the status changes to Carrier Disputed. If both records match, the status changes to Approved.

Canceled/Waiting for Approval

An invoice on a canceled shipment is pending payment until you approve it. The amount you submit for approval must match Con-Way records. Otherwise, you can dispute it and the status changes to Carrier Disputed. If both records match, the status changes to Approved.

Carrier Disputed

An invoice is pending payment because the amount owed that you submitted for approval does not match Con-Way records. Con-Way Accounts Payable will contact you and review the records and amount in dispute. After this review and you come to an agreement on what the invoice amount is, the Electronic Freight Payment status for the pull in dispute changes to Adjusted.

Adjusted

An invoice is pending payment because you must approve the agreed upon invoice amount in the Electronic Freight Payment application. When you type the agreed upon amount and submit it, your concurrence to the invoice amount is recorded as part of the booking number history, and the Electronic Freight Payment status for the pull in dispute changes to Approved.

Approved

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To inquire about missing invoices

Optional (See example)

2 On the Missing Pull Inquiry form, type the information requested in the text boxes. You must fill in all text boxes (only the message box is optional). You can change contact information, including the name, phone number, and e-mail address.

3 Click Send.

You can change this information.

1 On the List Invoices screen, click the link that instructs you to start an inquiry— Click here to inquire about a missing pull. The Missing Pull Inquiry form appears.

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If you leave any text box blank when you click Send, the tool prompts you to include that information.

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Approving or Disputing Your Invoices

Online invoice approval facilitates the payment process. You can view pull details and approve or dispute the invoice from one screen.

To approve an invoice

1 From the List Invoices screen, click the Booking # of the pull.

A dual-purpose screen appears. The top section is for approvals; the bottom, for viewing pull details.

2 In the Total Invoice Amount # text box, type the amount due indicated in your records. Type 0 (zero) for a canceled shipment, if there are no cancellation fees.

The Carrier

Reference # (optional) can be an identifier you use for your internal records.

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If the amount you submit for payment matches the amount Con-Way has on file, the invoice is submitted to Accounts Payable and the pull record’s status changes to Approved.

If the amount you submit for approval does not match the amount in Con-Way records, the following dialog box appears and you can dispute the charges.

To dispute an invoice amount

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The Dispute Pull Detail dialog box appears.

• The message text box is pre-populated and includes the disputed amount. • You can modify this message, as well as the contact information. However,

changes you make to contact information in this dialog box are not saved in your carrier profile. To change the default contact information, call the Con-Way Linehaul office and request those changes in your carrier profile.

Sending the information to Accounts Payable changes the pull’s status from Waiting for Carrier Approval to Carrier Disputed, and does not appear in the Pending Approval list until the issue is resolved.

All these text boxes require information. You can change this information.

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To dispute pull record details

1 On the List Invoices screen, click the Booking# of the pull for which you want to view details. A screen where you can view more information on the pull and approve the invoice for payment appears.

Approval Section

Pull Details

2 Review the information and click the hyperlink in the Pull Details section, to dispute any information.

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3 Include in the message box all disputed information. You can also change contact information. However, changes you make to contact information in this dialog box are not saved in your carrier profile. To change the default contact information, call the Con-Way Linehaul office and request those changes in your carrier profile.

All these text boxes require information. You can change this information.

ELECTRONIC FREIGHT PAYMENT QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE